Links: My Weekly Reviews
2021
February
Week 4
Reflection Did I reach my goal for # of hours spent on deep work this week?
- In the beginning of the ### Week I feel like I played more vr games and was less productive, but I’m still happy with my results this ### Week.
What worked well that I can implement more regularly?
- I think using todoist and paying more attention to my tasks has been really useful at staying organized and improving my time management
What setbacks did I face this week, and what can I do to deal with it next week?
- I played more games and wasn’t always following my desired work ethic
What worked well that I can implement more regularly?
- I should enforce my 30min max breaks and only allow it after 1 hour-ish of deep work
Weekly Progress
High-impact tasks:
- Progress on Night (reading, scriptwriting)
- Cleaning my room
- Working on my organization
- Recording my first video where I talk to the camera (common themes)
- Getting help from ate regie to plan my to-do list app development
Other notable tasks:
- Buying the Iron 165 uwu
- Setting up a fiverr profile
Future Plan
What do I want to accomplish in the week ahead?
- Finish the night culminating project
- Start planning and filming my robotics adventure
- Finish reading GTD and apply it into my life
- Read another book
- Get back into the groove of valorant during my free time
- Fix beatsaber not working
What adjustments do I need to make to ensure I reach my goals?
- Less time browsing social media and chilling with friends
- Incorporate the planning I’ve exercised the past 2 days March
Week 1 (1-7)
Productivity
Did I reach my goal for # of hours spent on deep work this week?
- I think so. My highest in a day was 7.75 hours, my lowest was 7 hours, and my median was 6.5 hours.
What worked well that I can implement more regularly?
- Planning my day while on the stepper helped me stay disciplined. There are times where I would go over by a few minutes, but I would just make up for during my break time. I started off with 2 2 hour blocks with 30 minute breaks in between, then I had 1 hour work periods for the rest of the day.
What setbacks did I face this week, and what can I do to deal with it next week?
- I think a possible setback is my quality of work. Most of the time I am on task, but during the later end of the day, I tend to get distracted often and am not as productive as I was in the morning.
What are possible areas for improvement to maximize success?
- I should organize my tasks accordingly, and put my most resource-demanding tasks in the beginning. I should also start trying to actively focus and try to incorporate a time-constraint session every ### Week (I just don’t know what I could do in such a session).
Weekly Progress
High-impact lag measures:
- Uploading night culminating task
- Almost finishing rough draft for position paper
- Finishing private frontier entrepreneurship essay
- Finish editing private frontier video submission
- Finish the courage to be disliked in 3 days
- Almost finish the games people play
Other notable lag measures:
- Hit immortal in valorant
- Find scholarships to do
High-impact lead measures:
- Coped with my feelings over the stock market Other notable lead measures:
- Aim training
- Learned how to use espresso
Future Plan
What lead measures (skills) do I want to work on in the ### Week ahead?
- Learning robotics
- Finding ways to enhance my montage editing and video essay writing
- Finish Games People Play and find a new book to read
- Start learning app development
What lag measures (products) do I want to complete in the ### Week ahead?
- Upload my beatsaber video
- Finish my position paper
- Complete APCS quiz
How much time do I want to allocate to achieve my goals?
- After seeing my potential, I think I can hit 8 hours of productivity a day
- I should spend some more time on my lead measures to help me become more efficient at my lag measures
- Maybe like a 6/2 split for lag/lead?
What adjustments do I need to make to ensure I reach my goals?
- Try to push for longer sessions, feel tempted to work during my breaks, and spend less time browsing youtube in the mornings and playing valorant at night
Week 2 (8-14)
Productivity
Did I reach my goal for # of hours spent on deep work this week?
- I did not. I started off strong, then slowly spent less hours on work. Nonetheless, I still managed to spend at least 6 or more hours a day, except for one day (VR with jacob).
What worked well that I can implement more regularly?
- Independently doing work
- Working on things on increments at a time
- Cramming stuff in my to-do list, then moving them to the next day if I don’t manage to do it
What setbacks did I face this week, and what can I do to deal with it next week?
- I was running out of project ideas, resulting in more leisure time, but now I have a huge project I can work on (app development)
- I’m starting to sometimes get sidetracked during work sessions, so I should control myself.
- I procrastinated from getting an accountability buddy
What worked well that I can implement more regularly?
- I can start planning more projects to occupy myself with
- Spend time reflecting
- If worse comes to worse, I’ll start blocking websites
- Find an accountability buddy after this
Weekly Progress
High-impact tasks:
- Hand-in 4 robotics programs, pretty much completing the rest
- Learned the basics of android studio, made my first app
- Got accepted into SFU!
- Finished position paper
- Finished reading Grit, The Last Lecture, Games People Play
Other notable tasks:
- Finished math FTC applications review Future Plan What lead measures (skills) do I want to work on in the ### Week ahead?
- I want to continue learning more about app development by working on my to do list application
- 1 hour every day
- Find a new life hack
- Finish reading How to Win Friends and Influence People, and another book
What lag measures (products) do I want to complete in the week ahead?
- I want to finish the task part of my to do list app
- Upload beat saber video
- Hand-in all robotics projects and start working on final project
How much time do I want to allocate to achieve my goals?
- 8+ hours of deep work every day
- 1 hour reading (skills)
- 1-2 hours app development (skills & products)
- 1-4 hours robotics (products)
- 2 hours ELA (products)
- 1 hour math lesson and homework (skills)
- 1 hour video creation (products)
What adjustments do I need to make to ensure I reach my goals?
- Be more disciplined regarding my sleep schedule
- Stop being distracted 4Head
- Allow for flexible break times but don’t spend more time
Week 3 (15-21)
Weekly Progress
High-impact tasks completed this week:
- Find an accountability buddy
- Finish editing beat saber progression video
- I was able to create a proposal for my final project, and finish the discord API and yeelight color change components of it
- Read how to win friends and influence people, mindset
- Finish letter of inquiry
Other notable tasks completed this week:
- Plan out essays to try for
- Dressed up for grad pics B)
- Started to learn more kotlin, found a decent method of learning
Measuring key metrics:
- Productive hours:
- Sun 10
- Mon 10.5
- Tues 9
- Wed 8
- Thurs 9
- Fri 9.45
- Sat 9
- Today - 1.5
- 9.278 hours a day
- 64.95 hours total
- And this isn’t counting the time I spend on my morning/night routines O_o
Assessment for important categories:
- Robotics
- Nice that I managed to make so much progress in one ### Week
- ELA
- Was able to finish letter of inquiry in 3 hours
- Math
- Should spend more time reviewing
- App Development
- Good amount of time allocated to app development, gonna
- Videography
- Could have been more productive during editing sessions, but I think chatting with zain is just as important/productive
- Games
- Impressed I only played valorant once
- Scholarships
- Happy I found more scholarships to do Reflection What worked well that I can implement more regularly?
- Having an accountability buddy like Zain has helped me maintain my drive to stay productive and do work
- Feel accountable to do my tasks
- Learning a lot from him
- His work ethic gives me inspiration
What setbacks did I face this week, and what can I do to deal with it next week?
- I didn’t spend much time on sunday doing deep work, as I went to jessica’s for majority of the day (12-8pm)
- It’s been a while since I went over, so I’m not too worried about it
- I’m fortunate enough to not have anything due, but if something is due, I’ll take initiative and ask to leave earlier
What worked well that I can implement more regularly?
- I can prioritize my tasks better to put the things that require the most brain power during the beginning of the day
- I can implement the things I learned when learning about productivity methods
- 5 min breaks every 30mins-1 hour with pomodoro
- Time block
- Eat my frogs
- Ensure I spend enough time on each important categories within my life
- Brainpower in the morning, organizing in the night
- Don’t spend extra time doing tasks unless you NEED to Future Plan What lead measures (skills) do I want to work on in the ### Week ahead?
- Learning Kotlin
- Learning math
What lag measures (products) do I want to complete in the ### Week ahead?
- Finishing robotics
- Finish reading novel and assignments
- Work on new video/montages
- Catch up on AoT S4
- Apply for the two scholarships
How much time do I want to allocate to achieve my goals?
- Learning Kotlin: 1/d
- Learning math: 1.5-2/d
- Finishing robotics 2/d
- Finish reading novel and assignments 2/d
- Work on new video/montages 1/d
- Catch up on AoT S4 1/d
- Scholarships 2/d
What adjustments do I need to make to ensure I reach my goals?
- Possibly add a timer to feel pressured to do more at the end of sessions
- Don’t be distracted by stuffs ig
Week 4 (21-28)
Weekly Progress
High-impact tasks completed this week:
- Implemented timer into app
- Finished and handed in robotics final project
- Progress on ELA Novel Study (Read book, real world connector, character graphic, final reflection)
- Finished reading social skills and logic made easy
Other notable tasks completed this week:
- Got to chill with cousins during sunday
- Started new habit (daily refind)
- Spending more time on math
Measuring key metrics:
- Productive hours:
- Sun- 3
- Mon- 8.5
- Tues- 10.5
- Wed- 11
- Thurs- 8
- Fri- 8.5
- Sat- 9.5
- 8.428 hours average
- 59 total
- Considering my 3 hours in sunday, I’m pretty proud of myself
Assessment for important categories:
- Learning Kotlin: 1/d
- I’m glad I’ve been able to stay productive despite my work sessions being near the end of the day
- My pace going forward will be completely dependent on how quickly I learn kotlin and how easy my changes are
- Learning math: 1.5-2/d
- Hopefully I can maintain this to boost my mark and prepare for the ap credit
- Start working on AP practice questions
- Finishing robotics 2/d
- I’m happy with the time I spent and the outcome
- Could use this time for preparing for computer science now
- Finish reading novel and assignments 2/d
- Happy I was able to produce such quality results within this much time
- Hopefully I can finish everything by this ### Week
- Work on new video/montages 1/d
- Not bad, got to upload beatsaber finally and finish hacking to the gate and plan out editing tutorial
- I’ll start wanting to make more videos when I think of more ideas
- Catch up on AoT S4 1/d
- Binged it all and do not regret it at all
- Been binging the op and ending while typing this up, I never realized how good the ending was too, but the op has slapped since the very beginning
- Scholarships 2/d
- Really proud of the quality of my scholarships, getting lots done in each work period
- Just gotta edit the bc tech one a bit more and then the rest of my focus can be on app development and studying
- I was satisfied with the amount of time I spent on each category Reflection What worked well that I can implement more regularly?
- I think the breaks can benefit my overall attention and brain power as long as I can successfully resist the urge to prolong my breaks
- I’m still able to get done what I wanted to do, but I don’t wanna stoop any lower
- I can probably try to get back to watching an anime episode every break considering that I can comfortably watch at increased speed
- The water reminder did its job lmao
What setbacks did I face this week, and what can I do to deal with it next week?
- I spent more time than I would like to doing low leisure activities
- Just gotta ask myself on if I want to continue, or if I want to spend it on something more productive/more meaningful
- Been sleeping a bit later and sleeping more
- I don’t have much so it’s okay, but I don’t need to sleep 9 hours lmao
- Also gotta fix sleep schedule to prepare for next semester
What worked well that I can implement more regularly?
- Fix sleep schedule
- Watch anime instead of random youtube videos Future Plan What lead measures (skills) do I want to work on in the ### Week ahead?
- Social skills
- Learning kotlin
- Math review
- Get back into entrepreneurship or any money-making opportunities
- Get into daily refind reading
What lag measures (products) do I want to complete in the ### Week ahead?
- New youtube video for john mavrick
- Implement points system and fragment in my app
- English novel study
How much time do I want to allocate to achieve my goals?
- Social skills variable
- Learning kotlin 2/d
- Math review 1.5-2/d
- Get back into entrepreneurship or any money-making opportunities 1/d
- Get into daily refind reading 0.5-1/d
- English novel study 2/d
Final comments?
- Be more disciplined
- Find out more things to do to help with career
- Watch more anime B)
Week 5 (March 29 - April 4)
Weekly Progress
High-impact tasks completed this week:
- Finished ELA novel studies assignments
- Began daily AP studying regimen
- Finished lessons 1-6 of the udacity google app development kotlin course
- Finished logic made easy, $100 startup, midway Lean Startup
Other notable tasks completed this week:
- Missed window for turning in financial essay
- Finished editing valorant montage editing tutorial
- Tried recording productivity youtube shorts
- Started reading refind articles more often
- Considered notion
- Measuring key metrics:
- Productive hours:
- Mon- 9.5
- Tues- 9.75
- Wed- 9.25
- Thurs- 8
- Fri- 9
- Sat- 9.5
- Sun- 9
- 9.14 hours average
- 64 total
- I liked how consistent I was; the one day I didn’t do 9 was when I spent 4 hours playing valorant lmao
- Ngl, numbers may be slightly inflated because of pomodoro breaks
Assessment for important categories:
- Math
- Been able to do up to 4 hours of studying daily
- Am confident with free response questions, but do miserably on multiple choice
- Hopefully I can maintain
- Rest of School
- Final reflection, Author critique finished, got 100 on all assignments
- Reading
- Re-instigated my desire for entrepreneurship
- More information and insight to managing a business
- Social
- Started to talk to people on discord
- Got to talk with friends and zain :)
- Got to talk briefly to cousins, jessa
- App development
- Learned a LOT of concepts and topics, I’m not sure if I’m able to retain them all or if I efficiently learned them
- Binding, databases, navigation, viewmodels
- Tried following them for the sleep tracking app, but my code doesn’t workkkkk
- Learned a LOT of concepts and topics, I’m not sure if I’m able to retain them all or if I efficiently learned them
- Video Editing
- Glad I hit 500 subscribers and that my views are growing
- I honestly want to spend more time on videography because I think I have a shot
- Just gotta think of videos I would appreciate making and would be favorable
- New keyboard coming soon, productivity and experiences
- Just gotta think of videos I would appreciate making and would be favorable
- Tried making video shorts for productivity but I’m not a fan of them :/
- Finished my montage editing tutorial, finished everything else
- Extras
- Beat bungee jump 95% speed :o Reflection How do you feel about your ### Week?
- I initially didn’t think much of the ### Week, but looking back, holy shit did I do a lot
- 9 hours of work is a lot considering how much I had done previously; I’m not sure if I’m able to improve on it, let alone maintain it, but I’ll try
- Helps me work on the different areas of my life
- Was the most tiring ### Week I think
- Just noticed how my breaks are mostly comprised of eating, youtube, and beatsaber lul
What worked well that I can implement more regularly?
- Pomodoro breaks helped me refocus and not burn out entirely
- Having time to chill at the end helps me wind down
- Add anime to my breaks (unless of course, that isn’t my main priority and I have other things to do)
What setbacks did I face this week, and what can I do to deal with it next week?
- App developments starting to become dreadful
- Slow down my pace
- Start fine-tuning my app
- Spend less time to prevent burnout
- Tendency to prolong breaks
- Not too bad, but on sunday I felt burnt out
- Just remember to take ORGANIZED breaks
What worked well that I can implement more regularly?
- Self-control
- Time spent on breaks
- Planning
- Starting to get sloppy and doing all my planning the day of Future Plan What lead measures (skills) do I want to work on in the ### Week ahead?
- Math Studies 4/d
- Keep doing daily regimen and take note of my areas of weaknesses to work on when I have more time
- I would say try and increase the time spent, but anything more than 4 hours seems like a lot of time spent on one thing
- Computer Science Studies 2/d
- I might be too overconfident, so I’m gonna take a practice test and determine my daily time spent from there
- I don’t wanna end up confusing kotlin with java lmao
- Learning Kotlin/Working on App 1-2/d
- Wanna slow it down to prevent burnout
- Just slowly eat away at lessons and work on code
- Might only include timer and points system
- Socializing variable
- Check AP discords during breaks and potential central to try and chime in when I can
- Find some people to talk about interests and thoughts with
- Refind 0.5/d
- I don’t mind reading through some articles at the end of the day :p
- Valorant variable
- Only if I had done everything else in the day What lag measures (products) do I want to complete in the ### Week ahead?
- Videography 0.5-1.5/d
- I just feel the urge to do content creation again (but this urge only happens at night)
- Finish
- Anime variable
- 1 episode a day daily at least, my progress has been hella slow
- Reading 1/d
- Finish lean startup and find a new book
- Good copy of BC Tech Scholarship variable
- Gonna implement some stuff I’ve read about recently and some updated thoughts
- Reformat essay maybe
How much time do I want to allocate to achieve my goals?
- Answered above ^^
- Probably gonna have to spend 9-11 everyday
- As long as I enjoy the process and make it fun I should be fine :)
April
Week 1 (April 5 - 11)
Weekly Progress
High-impact tasks completed this week:
Other notable tasks completed this week:
- Measuring key metrics:
- Productive hours:
- Mon- 9.5
- Tues- 10
- Wed- 8
- Thurs- 9
- Fri- 9
- Sat- 9
- Sun- 12
- Hours average: 66.5
- Total Hours: 9.5
Assessment for important categories:
- Math Studies 4/d
- Done my daily recommended schedule and have been developing a stable understanding of all the concepts
- Just need to continue working on mitigating small errors
- Computer Science Studies 2/d
- Confident enough to recontinue studies the 2 ### Weeks prior to the exam
- Found out some of the tech I should start dipping my toes into for university studies
- Learning Kotlin/Working on App 1-2/d
- Was able to spend 1-2 hours, and spent 5 hours on sunday working on it
- Made a good amount of progress, but I still should continue to spend 1-2 hours per day
- New bugs and need to work on code organization
- Viewmodels
- Socializing variable
- Got to talk to more people on discord, catch up with cousins and friends
- Refind 0.5/d
- Wasn’t able to do it every day, but was able to learn quite some valuable things from the articles I read
- Should continue to try and incorporate it daily
- Valorant variable
- Played a few games at the end of each day until the end of the ### Week
- Videography 0.5-1.5/d
- Was able to finish video editing tutorial and upload my war val
- Began to rethink my youtube channel approach and theme as well as video structure
- Anime variable
- Watched 1-2 episodes a day, max 10 episodes throughout the ### Week
- Reading 1/d
- Felt like I read slower than I usually do, but my retention and emotional evocation is increasing
- Good copy of BC Tech Scholarship variable
- Finished my good copy and am content with it :D Reflection How do you feel about the last ### Week?
- I’m content with the hours I productively spent, but I wish I had a more structured vision for my goals and the things I need to work on
- Spent a lot of time at night feeling anxious and depressed, so hopefully I can find out how to mitigate and accommodate for my feelings What worked well that I can implement more regularly?
- Writing down my thoughts at night helped me feel more relieved
- Apart from sunday, I experienced no burnout or tiredness, so my break intervals and workload are doing a good job of keeping me productive
What setbacks did I face this week, and what can I do to deal with it next week?
- Struggled to fix my sleep schedule for upcoming finals and ap exams
- Better start sleeping 15-30 minutes earlier every day
- Ensure that I don’t oversleep and that I give sufficient time to wind down
What worked well that I can implement more regularly?
- Finish my morning routine in an hour and don’t allot extra time
- Spend less time on long breaks, ensure that I’m on track
- If I’m unsure on what to do next, don’t be afraid to spend some time planning my next future steps Future Plan
What lead measures (skills) do I want to work on in the ### Week ahead?
- Math Studies 4/d
- Done my daily recommended schedule and have been developing a stable understanding of all the concepts
- Just need to continue working on mitigating small errors
- Computer Science Studies 1-2/d
- Confident enough to recontinue studies the 2 ### Weeks prior to the exam
- Found out some of the tech I should start dipping my toes into for university studies
- Socializing variable
- Continue to catch up with different friends and family
- Consider my idea of sending emails to teachers
- Reviewing day and future plan 0.5/d
- This time will be allocated for my daily review and planning of tasks for the next time
- Future plan will be me acknowledging some loose ends in my mind and preparing for them, hopefully so I can think of less things before bed
What lag measures (products) do I want to complete in the ### Week ahead?
- Videography 0.5-1.5/d
- Get working on one of my new video ideas and work on a script
- Continue to think about my presentation and video style
- Reading 1/d
- Finish The Art of Learning and finish another book
- Try to come up with applications after reading sessions
- Anime variable
- Watch at least 1 episode a day during break or something
- Refind 0.5/d
- I really like the fragments of knowledge the app provides, so maybe I can start incorporating it into random break intervals instead of cramming it all at night
- ELA 2/d
- Finish the two hamlet assignments
- Finish good copy of essay
- Learning Kotlin/Working on App 1-2/d
- Work on organizing fragments into viewmodels
- Fix timer not updating
How much time do I want to allocate to achieve my goals?
- Mentioned above